New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-07
TORIES LOSING PRESTIGE.
MATTHEW'S BEING DOWN LORD R. CHURCH
ILL KICKS HIM.


ILL KICKS HIM.
yupoy HOLMES PRESENTED WITH RAJ" We
,,ox-rs WHICH MEANS: NO CASES ON THE
r.,vNpAR-Iy CLARE IS THE WORST PART
on IRELAND HOW GOOD IRrLA d IL
fpy CABLE TO THE rRIBUNEl
r..,,,sont, 1887 North Amsrtcan Caos Fe0s 20.
roxnoN July 6-Misfortunes never come slngly
.ven for Governments The Spalding election has
hscn followed by defeat in the House OF Com
Ems which. though somewhat ridiculous, Is never
.ho,css even on the admission Of their own organs
. damap;ne blow at the prestige Of the Govern
ment You of course have had all the particulars
~ the casc from the news agencies, so need not
,econitulate them. Coming after Spalding, what
this contretemps startlingly illustrates is this
that the strongest Parliamentary majority con-
staptly hangs upon q perious balance wmcn
upon occasion so slight o matter as the whisA VI
a miliiner's petticoat Is sufficient to upset.
This week moreover, we have had severa'
revelations OF the discords that exist IN the bosom
Of the Unionist happy family. Lord kando'pn
Churchill, at once set to work to make capltal ouo
~ tho sna,dinc election. He wants either to get
Iacl, into the Cabinet, Or failing that, to break
q ~, "Tbe St Jamess Gazette" the organ OF
the stalwart Tories has been bitterly attacking
him and Mr. Chamberlain, and the whole 1ory'
Democrat Radical, Unionist and National parry
set. Now it is even asserted that Lord hando'pn
and Mr.. Chamberlain planned the attack on secre.
tary Matthews last night At any rate poth oi
them went for the unhappy Minister very herceiy'
and although they prudently refrained from VoU-
ingthemselves, their speechesdid much 10 lnhuence
The division. Moreover, 1t Is the subject or
curious remark in the House that these two sta'es
men spend hours in animated and ostentaious
f1o
They are planning their precious NATIONAL party
which so far only appears to consist besides them
selves of Mr.. Jesse Ceilings Mr.. Caine and n
gentleman of the name Of Jennings. In whom
Lord Randolph appears to have arrived at another
of his discoveries.
The flabbergasted Matthews was Lord KAN
dophs discovery also and 1T affords another illus
tration Of this little demagogue's character tha'
after attacking Mr. Matthews last night from his
place In the House and after the vote OF the
eensure was passed upon him. he went apoub 'he
lobby denouncing him in language OF coarse vui-
garity declaring he was fool who ought never
to have been put into such position on 'he
whole it has been an unlucky week for the uoV-
ernment. The case Of Miss Cass, being one OF
those which touch the popular sentiment, Is
bad one to be at the wrong side OF, and Mr.
Smith as usual was unable to open his mouth
without putting his foot in 1t, as the phrase goes
More important issues are involved than the char
acter Of O young woman he said In enect
there Is the character Of policeman" You
can imagine how this Burchardism will be used
ut the husttngs.
1t is bad time, too. for the Radical Cuionists
Mr. Caine and Mr.. I. w. Russell were hissed on
the platform the other evening at the great annua
meeting Of the United Kingdom Temperance AL
10th hay nlu hepn
nent members. Mr.. Jesse Ceilings. who
has hitherto been the great agricu''
tural labor champion, was warned not
to come down amongst the agricultural laborers
of Spaldng II he did not want to be sOused in q
horse pond. and he took the warning, while Mr.
chamberlain himself as you know. does not now
dare to address meeting even in Birmingham un-
less it Is carefully packed on the strictest ticket
principles
Apropos of the Cass case it should not be left
unnoted what contrast there is between the
way in which the misconduct of an English mag
fstrate is dealt with by the House Of Commons
and the way In which 1t treats the misdeeds OF
satraps of the Irish maoisterial bench lrlsh
Members year after year have been discussing the
outrages against public liberty and against the
character Of honorable men and women and the
House only shrugs its shoulders and talks about
obstruction. An English magistrate wrongs the
character Of an English girl and straightway there
is almost Ministerial crisis. You remember
Attorney General Holmes, whose promotion to a
judgeship mentioned in my last He has gone on
his first assze and what do you think has hap
pened to this politician who has spent the last
few months arguing to the House OF Commons that
ireland is in such state of crimnalty that 1t
requires an eternal coercion act TO make 1t respect
the law? Why, in the very first court he has
sat in as Judge the Sheriff presented him with q
pair of white gloves. the symbol of an absolutely
blank calendar. This was in South Louth, my
own constituency. He had not single case to
try. Talking Of judges. Judge OBrien Is one of
the worst partisans on the Irish bench. II is his
charges which formed the staple oil Mr. Baifour's s
arguments for his Coercion bill. While Judge
Holmes was receiving white gloves in Drogheda
Judge O'nrien delivcrir~ ono Of these charges
in Clare,, the value of which we are just able To
submit to q striking test "Ail reports said
Judge OBrien, lead to the inevitable con,
cluson that Clare possesses the bad distinction OF
being the worst part Of all Ireland In respect OF
social disturbance and disorder. and to the
further conclusion that 1t is worse at present
than it has been at any time before" Hut what
the factsp We find that by the latest official
returns the number of agrarian outrages reported
In Clare in April was sixteen, and Of these eight
were threatening letters. in May the number
was six. and Of these three were threatening
letters and the other three were made up of one
inccndiary fire and two injuries to property
which may mean anything or nothing Three
offences for the whole month over the whole
county and this according to Judge O'Brien ID
the worst part of all Ireland 1t will throw ar
instructive light upon the workings Of the
Irish judicial mind when / mention that the
county which Judge O'Brien thus reviles was
the county whose chief town he unsuccessfully
contested In 1870 e-ainst the parnellite can
dfdatc while his Lordship yet Nations
Home EULER. T. p. GILL; ~ P.
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